EvaPour one out for all of the security practitioners who are going to have to spend the holidays patiently explaining that using a password manager is still good, actually, to people who have glanced at a headline about the latest LastPass breach.
thoughts have been thinked@evacide ok but serious question: is LastPass less secure than other password managers? I hear about their breaches quite often.
Sherri Davidoff@antimatter @evacide All it means is that LastPass has detected and chosen to report when they are hacked. It’s a GOOD thing that they are sharing this information. Many other tech companies either don’t detect or don’t report when they are hacked. For example, see: https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-17-microsoft-bug-database-hacked-in-2013.html
NSA@sherridavidoff @antimatter @evacide Doesnt make it any better that they reported it because its been a known flaw for years, and users should be more conscious of where they are putting their data in the first place
@antimatter @evacide @Il Ya, I have just seen plenty of other tech companies get hacked and sweep it under the rug. The recent trend toward more transaparency is better. Bummer that they were vulnerable, but that’s par for the course right now.